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Elaine Weissman: In New Kensington? Rea Benedict: Yes. Uh, my sister and
her husband lived in Chicago, and there was a grocery store for sale, and
my brother in law was looking for something to do, and we called them up
and asked them if they'd be interested in this grocery store. And they said
they would come out and look it over. And they did. They came out and
looked it over, and most of the customers were customers, people who worked
in the mines there. And, uh, invariably those mines would go out on strike.
Weissman: Nothing's changed. Benedict: That's right. And, uh, they did lose
a lot because they used to put a lot of things on the books. They charge
everything. And then when the strike was over and they did start to work
and get paid, they'd go elsewhere and spend their money, you know, instead
of coming paying their bills. So they did lose. And then they finally had
to give up. Weissman: Oh, but I know there were company stores, which they
shut. But this was not a company. Benedict: It was not. No, this was not a
company. So this was in what the part they call Parnassus. Weissman:
Parnassus. Benedict: Right. There's, uh, like this is New Kensington on one
side of Parnassus. On the other side is Arnold.
